South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Dichanthelium laxiflorum | Openflower Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium linearifolium | Slimleaf Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium ovale | Eggleaf Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria patens | Texas Cottontop | |
Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
Dioscorea quaternata | Fourleaf Yam Wild Yam Colic Root Yam Root | |
Dichanthelium ravenelii | Ravenel's Rosette Grass | |
Dichondra recurvata | Oakwoods Ponysfoot Oakwoods Ponyfoot | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum var. thinium | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scabriusculum | Woolly Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scoparium | Velvet Panicum | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium spretum | Eaton's Rosette Grass | |
Diodia teres | Poorjoe | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed | |
Dioscorea villosa | Wild Yam | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Doellingeria sericocarpoides | Southern Whitetop | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Draba brachycarpa | Shortpod Draba | |
Drosera brevifolia | Dwarf Sundew Spatulate-leaved Sundew | |
Drosera capillaris | Pink Sundew | |
Dryopteris celsa | Log Fern | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern Woodfern Florida Shieldfern | |
Drosera tracyi | Tracy's Sundew | |
Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway Sedge Three-sided Sedge | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Dysodiopsis tagetoides | False Dogfennel Dogweed | |
Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
Echinacea atrorubens | Topeka Purple Coneflower | |
Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Echinocereus coccineus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
Echinocereus coccineus var. paucispinus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry Cactus Banana Cactus Cob Cactus Purple Pitaya Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus Prostrate Hedgehog Cactus | |
Echinocereus enneacanthus var. brevispinus | Pitaya | |
Echinocactus horizonthalonius | Devilshead Eagle Claws Turk's Head Devil's Head | |
Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. horizonthalonius | Devilshead Turk's Head Devil's Head Manca Caballo Bluebarrel Cactus Visnaga Meloncillo | |
Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
Echinocereus pectinatus | Rainbow Cactus | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine Purple Coneflower | |
Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
Echinodorus tenellus | Mudbabies | |
Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
Eleocharis acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
Eleocharis atropurpurea | Purple Spikerush | |
Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephantsfoot | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast Spikerush | |
Eleocharis compressa var. acutisquamata | Sharpscale Spikerush | |
Eleocharis engelmannii | Engelmann's Spikerush | |
Eleocharis equisetoides | Jointed Spikesedge | |
Eleocharis flavescens | Yellow Spikerush Pale Spike-rush Wrinkle-sheathed Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis interstincta | Knotted Spikerush | |
Eleocharis macrostachya | Pale Spikerush | |
Eleocharis microcarpa | Smallfruit Spikerush | |
Eleocharis minima | Small Spikerush | |
Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
Eleocharis obtusa | Blunt Spikerush | |
Eleocharis parvula | Dwarf Spikerush | |
Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem Spikerush | |
Eleocharis reverchonii | Reverchon's Spikerush | |
Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
Eleocharis tenuis | Slender Spikerush | |
Eleocharis tortilis | Twisted Spikerush | |
Elephantopus tomentosus | Elephant's-foot Common Elephant's-foot Devil's Grandmother | |
Elionurus tripsacoides | Pan American Balsamscale Balsamscale | |
Eleocharis tuberculosa | Cone-cup Spikerush Tubercled Spikerush Long-tubercled Spikerush | |
Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
Elymus virginicus var. virginicus | Virginia Wildrye Virginia Wild Rye | |
Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
Ephedra aspera | Rough Jointfir | |
Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
Epithelantha micromeris | Pingpong Ball Cactus Button Cactus | |
Ephedra pedunculata | Vine Jointfir | |
Epifagus virginiana | Beechdrops | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
Erythronium albidum | White Troutlily White Dogtooth-violet White Fawnlily Adder's-tongue | |
Erigeron annuus | Eastern Daisy Fleabane Daisy Fleabane | |
Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
Eragrostis capillaris | Lace Grass Lace Lovegrass Lace Love Grass | |
Erigeron colomexicanus | Running Fleabane Sprawling Daisy | |
Eriocaulon compressum | Flattened Pipewort Hat Pins | |
Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
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